thigh
Example Sentences
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“The time has come to get with the dark-meat program. The boneless thigh may be the most perfect piece of meat or poultry imaginable.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
"The melanoma patient had dozens of metastatic tumors on her leg and foot, and we injected just one tumor up on her thigh," Ravetch says.
From Science Daily • Mar. 16, 2026
Chicken cutlet starts with either a boneless chicken thigh or a boneless chicken breast that’s covered with cling wrap and pounded to even thickness.
From Salon • Feb. 26, 2026
The 32-year-old had been absent for nine matches with a thigh injury and there had been no real talk of a return.
From BBC • Feb. 23, 2026
The snake was thicker than my thigh, but I knew from Togbe that these giants weren’t poisonous.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.